ACHIEVING RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced a deal to deepen bilateral trade and investment cooperation in the U.S.-Argentina bilateral relationship that will provide American exporters with unprecedented access to the Argentine Republic’s (Argentina’s) market while protecting U.S. national and economic security.
- Under this deal, Argentina will provide preferential market access for U.S. goods exports, including certain medicines, chemicals, machinery, information technology products, medical devices, motor vehicles, and a wide range of agricultural products.
- The Framework reflects the countries’ shared ambition and values, and builds on actions Argentina has already taken to modernize its trade and investment regime and foster reciprocal conditions.
GROUNDBREAKING TERMS: The key terms of the U.S.-Argentina deal will include:
- Allowing Agriculture Opportunities: Argentina will allow access for U.S. poultry and poultry products, within one year, and simplify red tape for U.S. exporters of beef, beef products, pork, and pork products. Argentina also has agreed to protect U.S. exporters’ use of certain meat and cheese terms, preserving market access and creating the potential for new opportunities in the region.
- Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property: Argentina will continue to improve enforcement against counterfeit and pirated goods, including in the online environment. Argentina also has committed to address structural challenges cited in the 2025 Special 301 report, including patentability criteria, patent backlog, and geographical indications, as well as to work toward aligning its intellectual property regime with international standards.
- Allowing U.S. Standards: Argentina will allow U.S. companies to use U.S. or international standards for imports of goods made in the United States, without extra conformity assessment requirements or burdensome regulation. U.S. manufacturers in key sectors like autos and medical devices will find it easier to sell in Argentina.
- Preventing Barriers for Digital Trade: Argentina has committed to recognizing the United States as an adequate jurisdiction under Argentine law for the cross-border transfer of data, including personal data. Argentina has also committed not to impose customs duties on electronic transmissions or digital services taxes, and to refrain from discriminating against U.S. digital services or digital products.
- Strengthening Economic Security Alignment: Argentina and the United States already are close security allies. Argentina has committed to working with the United States on deeper economic security cooperation, including on combatting unfair trade practices of third countries, export controls, investment security, and protecting the integrity of information and communications technology infrastructure.
- Ensuring Fairness with Critical Minerals: Argentina has significant critical minerals resources. The commitments of the Framework will ensure the rules in this sector are fair for U.S. firms.
- Strengthening Labor Protections: Argentina will adopt and implement a prohibition on the importation of goods produced by forced or compulsory labor, and strengthen protections for internationally recognized labor rights.
- Improving Customs Reforms: Argentina will remove its consularization requirements for U.S. goods and will no longer prohibit express carriers from becoming Authorized Economic Operators. Argentina will also permit monthly payment for express carriers and implement full pre-arrival processing while protecting the data submitted to its single window.
- Confronting State-Owned Enterprises and Subsidies: Argentina will address potential distortionary actions that state-owned enterprises or industrial subsidies may have on the bilateral trading relationship.
THE PROSPEROUS PATH FORWARD: In the coming weeks, the United States and Argentina will work expeditiously to finalize the text of the Agreement for signature.
- U.S. businesses have found opportunities in Argentina for 200 years, leading to a $2 billion surplus last year.
- This Framework will take us into the future with even more U.S. exports.
- The United States will also give Most Favored Nation (MFN)-tariff treatment for certain products contained on the list of Potential Tariff Adjustments for Aligned Partners (PTAAP), and will finalize negotiations with respect to market access for beef.
LIBERATING AMERICA FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES: President Trump challenged the assumption that American workers and businesses must tolerate unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged them for decades and contributed to our historic global trade deficit.
- On April 2, President Trump declared a national emergency in response to the large and persistent U.S. goods trade deficit caused by a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, unfair tariff and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption.
- President Trump continues to advance the interests of the American people and our agricultural sector by removing tariff and non-tariff barriers and expanding market access for American exporters.
- Today’s announcement shows that America can defend its domestic production while obtaining expansive market access with our trading partners.
